PORT ST. LUCIE — Resident Duanne Andrade has been named to the Tykes & Teens board of directors as the nonprofit children's mental health agency seeks to expand services in St. Lucie County.

For the past 15 years, Andrade has provided strategic and management consulting services for the private and non-profit sector with a focus on sustainability, renewable energy finance and micro finance.

Since 2013, she has served as the Senior Strategic Advisor & Chief Financial Officer of the Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF).

Prior to SELF, she held positions in financial institutions in the United States, Bolivia and Mexico.

Andrade also served as an adjunct Professor at the Latin American Center for Social Responsibility (CLARES), of the Anahuac University of Mexico, from 2007-2012.

She is also the founder of Evolution Women (www.evolutionw.org), a Florida non-profit organization focused on empowering women through business and financial education.

"We are extremely fortunate to find someone as qualified and passionate as Duanne to help us grow our presence in St. Lucie County," \said Tykes & Teens CEO Jeff Shearer. "We recognize that there is a great need for affordable children's mental health services and outreach in St. Lucie and adding exceptional local professionals like Duanne to our Board will help us successfully meet that need."

Andrade has a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from New York University (NYU) and a master's in business administration from Harvard International Institute for Development program of the Catholic University of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

She has been a keynote speaker at many international and national events, and has published academic papers as well newspapers articles and columns in addition to having had several guest appearances as a political analyst for CNNE (Spanish).

Tykes & Teens has been in business since 1996 and has provided mental health services to more than 30,000 children and families on the Treasure Coast.

The mission of Tykes & Teens is to support and strengthen our community through quality prevention, education and social emotional healing services for children and families.

Programming includes direct counseling services as well as community initiatives designed to prevent youth substance abuse, bullying, suicide and other dangerous and unhealthy behaviors.

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